School Board Copyright Policy Raising Eyebrows
But, a school board member assures the public the proposal was pulled and will be reworked with public input taken into consideration.
Local listservs have been heating up with Prince George's County parents voicing concerns about a school board policy change that would allow the district to own the copyright on student work. The Washington Post recently reported the proposal introduced at a Jan. 24 board meeting as something that could be approved as is, but school board members say that isn't true. Board member Peggy Higgins (Dist. 2) said the board heard parents' concerns and pulled the policy to rework it before the Post published its article. "It is through [the first read process] that the problems regarding this policy's proposed language became clear and the proposed policy was pulled in order to be reworked," Higgins wrote in an email to a Riverdale Park …
Terry Szall
9:08 am on Friday, February 8, 2013
So who thought this stuff up? How many millions of dollars are generated from children's scribbling with crayons in public schools? Wasted effort, wasted time and money endlessly debating the placement of more and more laws and other restrictive regulations. Why not spend the money on a top-rate, solid education for our children? How in the hell did the rest of us ever gain an education in the … more ›